'Progressive capitalist' rallies for 'democratic socialist' candidate in NYC mayoral race

By Fox News · Fox News

JAMAICA, QUEENS – Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., is a "progressive capitalist," but ahead of New York City's highly-anticipated Election Day, the Silicon Valley congressman rallied for self-identified democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani . As a broad coalition of Mamdani supporters gathered in Queens' Major Mark Park on Saturday, a socialist and a capitalist – both of Indian descent – found common ground despite the Democratic Party's looming identity crisis. "My vision is economic patriotism," Khanna told Fox News Digital after the rally, explaining that he wants to "build a broad, FDR-Obama-like coalition" to overhaul the U.S. economy. "I think we need to be a broad tent." Khanna said he is "probably one of the few" Democrats who has campaigned for the Democratic nominee in all three major races of this election cycle, also joining gubernatorial candidates Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., and former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., on the campaign trail in their states this year. 'DEMOCRATS ARE NERVOUS' ABOUT POTENTIAL ZOHRAN MAMDANI VICTORY, NEW REPORT WARNS "If you had asked me when I was growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that there would be an Indian-American of Hindu faith representing Silicon Valley introducing an African-born Indian of Muslim faith, who would be the next mayor of New York, I would have told you only in a Mira Nair film, but it's happening," Khanna told the crowd, referencing Mamdani's filmmaker mother. CLINTON CAMPAIGN ALUM URGES JEFFRIES, SCHUMER NOT TO 'TAKE THE BAIT,' GET 'BULLIED' INTO MAMDANI ENDORSEMENT Among those rallying in Queens were coalitions of New Yorkers from Afghan, Muslim, Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds, along with local elected officials, including former Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who lost his Democratic primary to a more moderate challenger last year. Speakers during Saturday's rally and canvass launch condemned Islamophobia, after Mamdani last week criticized his competitors in the mayoral race, including Independ…